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Online/ E-Safety (Advice for Children and Young people)

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Top tips for young people

1. Always set your social networks (Hi5. Facebooks, Bebo) to
private.

To do this

click on my accounts

scroll down to privacy settings

click only friends and networks..it is that easy!

2. Never give out personal information such as home address,
school, and phone numbers

3. Dont post pictures of yourself that you may be embarrassed by
later

4. Posting videos that are rude or offensive can come back to
haunt you later if you are trying to get into college or
universitywhat you put on the internet stays there!

5. Never send pictures of yourself that can be seen as nasty or
inappropriate while using your phone...it can be illegal!

6. Always keep your Bluetooth on OFF

7. Dont send mean or harassing messages while using the internet
or your phone...that makes you a cyberbully!

8. Do not give out personal information while gaming...it is the
same as on MSN!

9. Remember that illegal downloading can cost you access to the
internet...if you get caught, they will shut off your internet
access!

10. If you are getting harassed on the internet or with your
phone, report the abuse to the phone company or msn programme, they
can help!

11. If someone asks you for inappropriate materials of yourself
or others, always report them to www.ceop.gov.uk

Why do children and young people need to know about
esafety?

It is important that you know about the issues that affect your
daily lives.

Esafety is not just about protecting you from people trying to
harm you on the internet, whether it is by sexually exploiting you,
sexually harming you in person, or by sending you harmful
messages.

It is also about helping you understand about the consequences
of viewing inappropriate material online, being a bully online, and
about downloading and producing online materials illegally.

FIVE THINGS TO THINK ABOUT BEFORE PRESSING "SEND"

Don't assume anything you send or post is going to remain
private.

Your messages and images will get passed around, even if you
think they won’t: 40% of teens and young adults say they have had a
sexually suggestive message (originally meant to be private) shown
to them and 20% say they have shared such a message with someone
other than the person for whom is was originally meant.

There is no changing your mind in cyberspace—anything you send
or post will never truly go away.

Something that seems fun and flirty and is done on a whim will
never really die. Potential employers, college recruiters,
teachers, coaches, parents, friends, enemies, strangers and others
may all be able to find your past posts, even after you delete
them. And it is nearly impossible to control what other people are
posting about you. Think about it: Even if you have second thoughts
and delete a racy photo, there is no telling who has already copied
that photo and posted it elsewhere.

Don’t give in to the pressure to do something that makes you
uncomfortable, even in cyberspace

More than 40% of teens and young adults (42% total, 47% of
teens, 38% of young adults) say "pressure from guys" is a reason
girls and women send and post sexually suggestive messages and
images. More than 20% of teens and young adults (22% total, 24%
teens, 20% young adults) say "pressure from friends" is a reason
guys send and post sexually suggestive messages and images.

Consider the recipient’s reaction.

Just because a message is meant to be fun doesn’t mean the
person who gets it will see it that way. Four in ten teen girls who
have sent sexually suggestive content did so "as a joke" but many
teen boys (29%) agree that girls who send such content are
"expected to date or hook up in real life." It’s easier to be more
provocative or outgoing online, but whatever you write, post or
send does contribute to the real life impression you’re making.

Nothing is truly anonymous.

Nearly one in five young people who send sexually suggestive
messages and images, do so to people they only know online (18%
total, 15% teens, 19% young adults). It is important to remember
that even if someone only knows you by screen name, online profile,
phone number or email address, that they can probably find you if
they try hard enough.

Social Networks

- No matter how old you are, if you have a social network page,
you should have it set to private! Setting privacy settings is
easy!

Sign in to the main page

In the tool bar, click on settings

Then click on Privacy

Each section has its own settings

Click Only Friends and Networks for each one and you are
done!

Cyberbullying

- Being a bully online can affect everyone!

If you send nasty, rude, harassing or threatening
messages and images to someone, it can affect them in ways you do
not know. It can affect how they see themselves, how they talk to
people, what they eat, how they think and how they
live!

What you say while using the internet or your phone is real and
has real consequences!

To help others who have been victims of cyberbullying, become a
Cybermentor!

For more information, visit
http://www.brentlscb.org.uk/main/www.cybermentors.org.uk

You may like to talk to someone at
Childline - their freephone number is 0800 1111.

Removing an online image or video

Childline is working with the Internet Watch
Foundation (IWF) to help young people who want to remove sexually
explicit images of themselves from the internet. You can use the
Childline portal to anonymously verify your identity using the
Yoti app, and then submit your application to the IWF to have
the image removed wherever it appears on the internet. Click here
for more information https://contentreporting.childline.org.uk/

Disrespect NoBody

Get advice and support if you’re worried about any kind of
relationship abuse including sexting, relationship abuse, consent,
rape and porn.

Sexual Communication with a child under the age of 16 – new
offence

Section 67 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 inserts a new offence
into the Sexual Offences Act 2003, at section 15A, criminalising
sexual communication with a child.

This new classification criminalises conduct of an adult who
intentionally communicates with a child under the age of 16 (whom
the adult does not reasonably hold the belief for them to be aged
16 or over) with the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification if
that communication is sexual in nature or it’s intent is to
encourage that child to make a communication that is sexual.

Situations that will be covered by the offence include talking
sexually to a child in an online chatroom, sexually explicit SMS
text messages to a child along with inviting a child to communicate
sexually ( whether the invitation itself is sexual or not ).

From 3 April 2017, any adult caught breaking the law will face
up to two years in prison and be automatically placed on the sex
offenders register. The law will cover both online and offline
communication, including social media, e-mail, and letters.

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News

May 2017 newsletter

Ofsted Inspection

The Bedford Borough Safeguarding Children Board (BBSCB) is
judged to be 'Good' in a report published today by Ofsted.
For more details of the report and a statement by Jenny Myers,
Independent Chair of BBSCB can be found here